A Nation Of Voyeurs

We have become a nation obsessed with voyeurism. We are constantly fed a diet of material on the television and the cinema (a high-class word for movies), which brings us literally into the homes, and private lives of individuals, real and fictitious. We are led to watch people in intimate situations (through R, X and PG ratings) and stimulate the natural, carnal and sensual in man.

Advertising is touting products to enhance virility or sensuality.Tabloids glare at us from the newsstands and the racks at the grocery store to invite us to read the latest information about what someone has learned about a certain prominent or not so prominent individual.

There seems to be an insatiable appetite for this material that beckons to the baser nature of man.

Pornography in all its forms brings in unbelievable amounts of wealth to its purveyors. Their object is to make “Peeping Toms” of everyone. Most people don't look at the situation in that regard, but it is truly the case.

We are enticed to waste our productive time and our monetary resources on things of no profit or value to our families or ourselves.

We have been prophetically warned, but it seems as if our ears do not hear, nor do we comprehend the message and so we spend our precious hours here in mortality doing that which is of no worth when viewed from the eternal perspective.

Someone once asked me if I did not want a new High Definition TV. My answer was that I tried to avoid adultery in color; I did not need to see it in HD.

I hope that you will remember and take into your hearts the warnings given by the general authorities. Keep yourselves clean from the sins of this generation. You will not only have to avoid the material, but you will have to prepare your minds by reading the scriptures so that you will avoid even the appearance of evil.

Love,

Grandpa